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Cyberattack on German steel factory causes 'massive damage
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| 12/19/2014
| Loek Essers
Posted on 12/20/2014 1:07:05 PM PST by aimhigh
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Computer security experts should be in high demand soon.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:07:05 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
Yes, either get some experts you can trust, or go retro, old school with the storage of data. It may be time to go back to paper for certain kinds of data. This hacking is spinning out of control, and the guilty parties remain faceless, for the most part.
To: aimhigh
Cyber security is largely a fool’s game.
There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:14:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: aimhigh
I’d bet the steel company is ThyssenKrupp. I work for one of their North American divisions and we were subjected to the types if email phishing mentioned in the article for mire than a week. I was getting hundreds a day.
We share servers with Germany.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:14:45 PM PST
by
pgkdan
(ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF THE ANTICHRIST!)
To: cripplecreek
"There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet."A lot seems to have happened in tech since you operated your last blast furnace.
To: cripplecreek
There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet.This is an IT guy's wet dream.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:19:12 PM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: cripplecreek
Wait, Wait.
How can I check in on my blast furnace job from home in front of the TV?
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:20:54 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
To: beebuster2000
Doesn’t change anything.
There is no good reason an outside entity should have any means of controlling a blast furnace without being in the building.
Nothing on the internet is truly secure or ever will be.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:21:55 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: lee martell
I agree with the old school
America will be salvaged if and when we go back to THINKING like we're a Noeman Rockwell illustration.
We LOVED that view of ourselves and really wanted to BE that America.
In many ways we were ... but not as idealistically as portrayed
Still ... it was the idea of the great idea that we loved
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:27:29 PM PST
by
knarf
To: cripplecreek
Most water systems across the country are now monitored and controllable via the internet. Kinda like dominos, ready to fall.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:30:20 PM PST
by
aimhigh
(1 John 3:23)
To: aimhigh
I have my own well and pump but I still need electricity to run them. Also internet connected.
Technology is not the answer to every question.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:31:54 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: knarf
I think there is much to that. If we had flying cars today, and lunar colonies, and if intergalactic spaceships were on the the drawing board, then I might see technology as taking us somewhere good. But that isn't my world.
I'm a tech guy. It's how I make my living.
And so much of today's tech is facebook, twitter, and porn. Today's technology really ISN'T making our lives better.
I think we need to stop. Slow things down. And really ask ourselves if the Norman Rockwell vision is something we might want to get back to. Or is the Obamacare website really the future we've always dreamed about?
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:33:53 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
To: beebuster2000
A lot seems to have happened in tech since you operated your last blast furnace.
What would the internet do for my blast furnace?
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:35:23 PM PST
by
coon2000
(Give me Liberty or give me death!)
To: aimhigh
I am responsible fro several process control computer system. They are not connected to the outside world by any means. First order solution.
To: beebuster2000
Microsoft stopped issuing security updates, and now I'm screwed.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:38:19 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: ClearCase_guy
Thanx CCG ... a merry Christmas to you
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:38:54 PM PST
by
knarf
To: cripplecreek
“There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet.”
I don’t understand this drive to put things so critical on the world wide web either.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:43:06 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: knarf
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:46:42 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
To: aimhigh
“Most water systems across the country are now monitored and controllable via the internet. Kinda like dominos, ready to fall.”
Monitored, fine. Controllable via the internet, insanity.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:47:13 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I'm not truly clear about what is what ... but I'm led to believe the gas wells around here are monitored (at least) and perhaps controlled by the internet
Towers are EVERYWHERE around here.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:51:37 PM PST
by
knarf
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